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Zaha Hadid: Complete Works
by Zaha Hadid
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, $50
256 pages, 530 illustrations [420 color]
In a greatly revised and expanded version of a book published in the U.K. in 1998, here is the whole story of Zaha Hadid, from the dizzying and sometimes dumbfounding conceptual drawings and paintings of her early career through her apotheosis as the first and only woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. So prolific has Hadid become that most of her projects must be covered here in a single spread or less. "Objects, Furniture and Interiors" receive similar treatment in a final section.
The introduction by Aaron Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, is perceptive but some times subversively obscure: "Her architecture became reminiscent of how fields rise up over hills and caves open up beneath them, of how rivers move through undulating landscapes and peaks provide a sense of orientation." As Zaha Hadid Architects developed from a one-woman show into a busy London studio with hundreds of employees, and conceptual drawings were devoured by computerization, Betsky remarks how the "slabs, prows, and blocks" of the earliest designs developed into "spirals and tubes" and how Hadid has used the computer "to take the existing landscape and unfold it, to pan, swoop, swerve, cut, slow down and speed up.… As paintings disappear into computer drawings, their imagined world begins to appear."
(2009). Zaha Hadid: Complete Works. Interior Design, 80(9), 172-173. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.
Zaha hadid es una de las arquitectas contemporaneas mas representativas por su gran trayectora de obras hechas. Una de las cosas que resalta su trabajo es su singularidad y el estilo que aplica en sus proyectos. Mcuhos criticos de arquitectura toman como ejemplo claro de la arquitectura como arte por la estetica aplicada. Mas sin embargo tambien es uno de los objetivos hacia las criticas sobre la falta de funcionalidad de sus espacios.